Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) 

The PSNC website includes comprehensive details regarding Healthy Living Pharmacy which can be accessed here:  https://psnc.org.uk/services-commissioning/locally-commissioned-services/healthy-living-pharmacies/

What is a Healthy Living Pharmacy?

The concept of a Healthy Living Pharmacy is a pharmacy that:

• Delivers a broad range of services to a high quality and consistently, whatever the day of the week or month of the year
• Has a team that are pro-active in supporting health and wellbeing, with the community's health at the centre of what it does
• Promotes healthy living and wellbeing as a core activity
• Supports people with long-term conditions
• Is accessible and  approachable
• Is valued and trusted
• Maintains premises to a high professional standard with private consultation facilities and IT linked to local practices when available
• Works closely with other healthcare providers, reactively and proactively; and will be identifiable to the public and other healthcare professionals

To achieve the Healthy Living Pharmacy status pharmacies need to demonstrate three key areas of development:

• Developing workforce - includes having Health Living Champions (HLC) and developing leadership skills.
• Environment - includes having suitable premises, consultation room(s), health promotion area and IT capability.
• Multidisciplinary engagement - working with GPs, Commissioners and other provider service.

Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Level 1 Resources

Many of the resources needed to become HLP Level 1 accredited are included in the Public Health England HLP Quality Criteria document but below is a list of other resources (including local information) that you may need:

Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) Level 1 - Resource List

Last updated 1st August 2019.